NFC World

Google Pay users can now access and add their payment, loyalty and gift cards, passes and transit tickets to the app via a new streamlined user interface that simplifies navigation. “The new interface does away with the bottom tab and moves all navigation into the hamburger menu,” Android Police reports. “The redesigned home page will […]

Residents and small businesses in nine UK communities are taking part in a series of pilot schemes which aim to improve access to cash in rural and disadvantaged areas, where individuals remain dependent on cash but where bank branches and ATMs have closed down and local cash infrastructure is under threat. The Community Access to

NFCW EXPO: HID Global has opened a showcase in the NFCW Expo, featuring a series of white papers and case studies exploring how NFC technology can be used to deliver innovative use cases across retail, industry, building safety and beyond. “HID Global powers the trusted identities of the world’s people and things,” says the company.

Parents with an iPhone can now transfer funds to their children’s Apple Watch so they can then use it to make payments using Apple Pay. Parents using Apple Cash Family can also choose to receive a notification each time their children use the service. Notifications include details of both how and when the funds were

NFCW EXPO: Canada-based Tappy Technologies’ showcase in the NFCW Expo is now open, featuring panel discussions exploring the future of wearable payments and a product demo of the tokenized payments technology that forms the backbone of Timex Pay. Tappy’s wearable token service provider platform makes it possible for brands and card issuers to let consumers

Mobile ticketing transaction volumes, including contactless, in-app and mobile messaging ticket purchases, will increase from 6.8bn transactions in 2020 to 16.9bn in 2022, heralding a permanent shift towards contactless ticketing, according to a forecast by Juniper Research. Contactless ticketing in particular will recover “strongly”, with transaction values growing from US$6bn in 2020, exceeding 2019 figures

The Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada (DIACC) has begun alpha testing a framework of industry standards for digital ID authentication in order to create a trusted digital environment before the rollout of a digital ID infrastructure in the country — and the launch of a national trustmark for service and solution providers. Twenty

UK residents can now make charity donations using an open banking payments service that allows them to transfer money directly from their bank account to a charity’s bank account by scanning a QR code with their mobile phone, reducing the recipient’s processing costs and automatically enabling Gift Aid tax benefits on each donation. Users access

NFCW EXPO: The doors to the NFCW Expo are now open: Come in, look around, explore our first conference presentations and visit our charter exhibitors to find your new partners and suppliers. “The NFCW Expo is a new kind of trade show for the new world that we now find ourselves living in,” says NFCW

NFCW EXPO: Card issuers looking to quickly and easily provide their customers with the latest mobile and digital card solutions can now visit Antelop Solutions’ showcase in the NFCW Expo hall to learn about the France-based fintech’s white label SaaS solutions. Antelop acts as a trusted partner to banks, card issuers and payment processors seeking